Word: dipped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After a brief dip in the pool ("I spend all my time keeping it clean and I'm seldom in it"), Jack settles down with a Jack Daniel's softened by water. "Do you know that right now, tonight, there is not one single written word, and now-WHAT TIME is IT? We're in panic...
...year, it raised margin requirements (i.e., the minimum cash payment required on stock purchases) from 50% to 70%. While the Fed thought its action would act as a damper on speculation, changes in margins have usually had almost no effect on the market (see chart). After a brief dip last week, the market closed the week at 510.13, only 11 points under the alltime bull market top. Stock Exchange President G. Keith Funston complained that the Fed's action was unnecessary, pointed out that despite the six months' rise, customer credit on non-Government securities...
Though Wall Streeters are uneasy about the swiftness of the rise, few expect a substantial selloff. Earnings and dividends are now more secure* than they were a few months ago, and many institutions are waiting for a dip to buy. What Wall Streeters call the "350 Club"-the bears who saw the industrials declining to that level last winter-has been dissolved; it has been reorganized as the "450 Club." But these analysts could be wrong again. "There are hundreds of professional investors and institutions who go down on their knees at night, praying that the market will return...
...general enthusiasm, many shrewd traders are skeptical of the current market level, feel the market is due for a retrenchment. The experts argue that prices are already so high that they discount both a business upturn and any acceleration the Mideast crisis might bring. "Korea brought a quick dip and then a quick recovery," said Ralph A. Rotnem, partner of Harris, Upham & Co. "But today the market is more vulnerable; people are paying twice as much for earnings now as in 1950." Bears point out that the Dow-Jones industrials in mid-1950 sold at eight times earnings; during...
Abruptly, as if by some magical cue from the conductor, the 1,695 hypnotized customers in the audience begin to slam their hands together in rhythm to the march. The music wells, and the actors turn, dip, twist and prance. The applause pounds on in martial time as, a-tatatatat, a-tatatatat, the music pours up from the pit and gilds the hall with shimmering sheets of brass. At last the house lights come on, and the customers shoulder their way to the door, hands burning and hearts still tingling with a rediscovery of a bygone Fourth of July...